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SOC 202 Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
What does Loius Althusser focus on? Answer: Consumers and viewers
consumption
Finish the sentence: As viewers and consumers of mediated images we
.............. screened identification. Answer: Negotiate
What is ideal subject Answer: When we occupy a position that is set up
for us as viewers
What does ideal subject and viewers/consumers identification result in?
Answer: Interpellation - We come to recognize our screened surrogate
and identify with and maintain through our consumption.
What does ideal subject and viewers/consumers identification also result
in? Answer: A self-awareness of the consumption of self - a recognizing
that the "gendered image" I consume reflects a construction of my
likeness
1950's? Answer: Domesticity, nuclear family, rise of suburbs, harmony,
strict gender roles, "mom and dad"
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1960s - 70s? Answer: -Rise of the women's movement (feminism)
-Betty Friedman's The Feminine Mystique (1963) examined "the singular
view of what it meant to be a woman"
1980's and 90's? Answer: -Pop culture was forced to respond to a
increasingly effective feminism and did so via the "out of control"
feminist
-The female earlier generations was now seen as socially and politically
violent, crazed, sexually promiscuous, a threat
- In effect, the "independent woman" was seen as unappealing
What did Judith Butler focus on? Answer: Gender Trouble (1990)
What is the thesis or also the definition of gender under Gender Trouble?
Answer: Gender is "the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated
acts within a regulatory frame that produce the appearance"
What is thesis under Gender Trouble? Answer: - This process is about
enacting to social expectations and in aid of the status quo-norms.
- With any status quo comes expectations and if not satisfied, a
consequence, sanction or stigma
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Who created the Looking Glass Theory? Answer: Charles Cooley
What is the Looking Glass Theory? Answer: - We imagine how others see
our appearance
- We imagine other's judgements of our appearance
-Our feelings-pride-or shame are determined by our imagination of
judgements of us.
What is Judith Bulter's Hegemonic Perspective on Doing Gender?
Answer: -Masculinity and femininity are in many ways performed gender
identities that re-make the gender roles determined for us and
naturalized to us
What is Judith Bulter's Counter-Hegemonic Perspective on Doing
Gender? Answer: -Gender though is subjectively socialized as something
we perform and maintain, but is also something we actively subvert and
manipulate
Finish the sentence for Laura Muleuy's definition of pop culture: Pop
culture-and art historical images largely operate within a ......1.).......... of
erotic .........2.).............. Answer: system, spectacle
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SOC 202 Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
What does Loius Althusser focus on? Answer: Consumers and viewers
consumption
Finish the sentence: As viewers and consumers of mediated images we
.............. screened identification. Answer: Negotiate
What is ideal subject Answer: When we occupy a position that is set up
for us as viewers
What does ideal subject and viewers/consumers identification result in?
Answer: Interpellation - We come to recognize our screened surrogate
and identify with and maintain through our consumption.
What does ideal subject and viewers/consumers identification also result
in? Answer: A self-awareness of the consumption of self - a recognizing
that the "gendered image" I consume reflects a construction of my
likeness
1950's? Answer: Domesticity, nuclear family, rise of suburbs, harmony,
strict gender roles, "mom and dad"
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1960s - 70s? Answer: -Rise of the women's movement (feminism)
-Betty Friedman's The Feminine Mystique (1963) examined "the singular
view of what it meant to be a woman"
1980's and 90's? Answer: -Pop culture was forced to respond to a
increasingly effective feminism and did so via the "out of control"
feminist
-The female earlier generations was now seen as socially and politically
violent, crazed, sexually promiscuous, a threat
- In effect, the "independent woman" was seen as unappealing
What did Judith Butler focus on? Answer: Gender Trouble (1990)
What is the thesis or also the definition of gender under Gender Trouble?
Answer: Gender is "the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated
acts within a regulatory frame that produce the appearance"
What is thesis under Gender Trouble? Answer: - This process is about
enacting to social expectations and in aid of the status quo-norms.
- With any status quo comes expectations and if not satisfied, a
consequence, sanction or stigma
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Who created the Looking Glass Theory? Answer: Charles Cooley
What is the Looking Glass Theory? Answer: - We imagine how others see
our appearance
- We imagine other's judgements of our appearance
-Our feelings-pride-or shame are determined by our imagination of
judgements of us.
What is Judith Bulter's Hegemonic Perspective on Doing Gender?
Answer: -Masculinity and femininity are in many ways performed gender
identities that re-make the gender roles determined for us and
naturalized to us
What is Judith Bulter's Counter-Hegemonic Perspective on Doing
Gender? Answer: -Gender though is subjectively socialized as something
we perform and maintain, but is also something we actively subvert and
manipulate
Finish the sentence for Laura Muleuy's definition of pop culture: Pop
culture-and art historical images largely operate within a ......1.).......... of
erotic .........2.).............. Answer: system, spectacle
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